A SnorriCam is a camera device used in filmmaking that is rigged to the body of the actor, presenting a dynamic point of view from the actor's perspective, providing an unusual sense of vertigo for the viewer [source of the clip, learn more: https://t.co/5gQiutJkqy]
Humans who grew up in, to put it bluntly, complex cities like Paris or Prague (known to cause havoc with travellers) did nearly as good as country folk. Humans from orderly, grid based cities did the worst.
Locations in the country for most people are random, chaotic, and must be memorized. People grow up needing to pay attention to landmarks, distances by feel, and even the position of the sun. It has primed the humans there to be expert navigators.
People who grew up in cities did terrible. Folks who grew up in rural areas did much better. It took the city folk longer to find checkpoints and they got lost more often.
Why? Why would country people do better?
If you’ve been somewhere unfamiliar and felt hopelessly lost, it could be because you grew up in different areas of the world.
Scientists took 400,000 people (that’s a HUGE sample size) and had them play a navigational game to test why some people just get lost easier.
Get lost easily?
We feel bad for you humans with your terrible sense of smell.
A scientific study into navigational skills has found where you grew up has a HUGE impact on your sense of direction.
Let’s find out more on:
The Super Awesome Science Thread!
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This brilliant cup uses barrier grid, moiré patterns and stereography to create a locomotive effect.
[read more: https://t.co/CnSFBJV6Xp]
[Luycho: https://t.co/uaE58AyM8Z]
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It might sound as an insane idea, especially because it took 83 days of planning, dreaming, building and filming, but in the end The Brick Wall gave you a video of a cucumber house being constructed using a LEGO robot [full video: https://t.co/EOQm8iR8gn]
https://t.co/jznK4KcVRh